Register now: IPPC Online Comment System (OCS) training session

Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 08:23

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat will hold a virtual training session on the IPPC Online Comment System (OCS) on 10 July 2024 from 14:00-16:00 (Rome time). The training aims to guide IPPC Contact Points and designated reviewers from …

Virtual meeting of Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols to be held in June

Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 08:20

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that the Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols (TPDP) will meet virtually on 26 June 2024.

The meeting agenda can be found here. The meeting report will be published …

Now available: Report of the May 2024 Implementation and Capacity Development Committee Meeting

Posted on Thu, 20 Jun 2024, 08:21

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to provide the Implementation and Capacity Development Committee (IC) May 2024 meeting report, which is now available here.

The report covers discussions and decisions of the IC, progress updates on the Committee’s workplan as …

STDF working group taking place this week

Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024, 07:35

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Working Group will meet from 20-21 June 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The meeting, which will be chaired …

Annual face-to-face meeting of Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments to be held in June

Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024, 07:34

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that the IPPC Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT) will hold its annual face-to-face meeting from 24-28 June 2024 at the Obispo Colombres Agricultural Experimental …

Now available: CPM Bureau April 2024 meeting report

Posted on Tue, 04 Jun 2024, 14:30

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to announce that the meeting report of the CPM Bureau meeting, held in April 2024, has been published and is available here: https://www.ippc.int/en/publications/93446/

Phytosanitary Capacity Evaluation (PCE) Terms and Conditions now available

Posted on Fri, 31 May 2024, 12:43

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that as decided by the Eighteenth Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-18) in April 2024, the Terms and Conditions for using the phytosanitary capacity evaluation (PCE) online …

Now available: English versions of ISPMs and CPM Recommendation adopted by CPM-18

Posted on Fri, 31 May 2024, 12:40

The Standards Setting Unit of the IPPC Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that the four International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) and the CPM Recommendation adopted by the Eighteenth Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures …

Tell us how you observed the International Day of Plant Health

Posted on Wed, 29 May 2024, 07:32

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to invite the plant health community to share with the secretariat, photos, videos, social media posts, links to your events and any other activities to observe this year's International Day of …

Africa Phytosanitary Programme (APP) brochure now available in French

Posted on Wed, 29 May 2024, 07:29

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to announce that Africa Phytosanitary Programme (APP) brochure is now available in French.

The brochure describes the APP, an initiative through which the IPPC Secretariat is empowering countries in Africa to …

IPPC hands-on simulation exercise on Fusarium TR4 starts 20 May in Kenya

Posted on Wed, 29 May 2024, 07:28

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat, in partnership with FAO Mesoamerica, FAO Kenya and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), will carry out hands-on simulation exercise responding to a possible detection of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropical Race …

Report of the IPPC Financial Committee has been published

Posted on Fri, 10 May 2024, 12:25

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to announce that the meeting report of the IPPC Financial Committee, held in April 2024, has been published and is available here.

Deadline extended: Call for IPPC diagnostic protocol authors

Posted on Mon, 06 May 2024, 14:46

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat has extended to 17 May 2024, the deadline for the call for IPPC diagnostic protocols (DPs) authors for:

• Oryctes rhinoceros (2023-003)
• High-throughput sequencing identification of pure culture of phytopathogenic regulated bacteria isolated from …

Now closed: 2024 IPPC consultation period for draft diagnostic protocols only

Posted on Mon, 06 May 2024, 14:45

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that the additional consultation period on the draft diagnostic protocols (DPs), which was opened on 30 January, closed on 3 May 2024.

This consultation period …